Episodes

  • CONVERSATION BYTES - EP 007 - KAREN POWELL
    Jan 18 2022

    Meet Karen Powell Karen is Head of Australia and New Zealand for ECOVACS ROBOTICS, Is the number 1 brand in the robotic vacuum industry in Australia. Established in 1998 in China, ECOVACS ROBOTICS recently hit 20 million sales global sales of robot vacuum cleaners, across 60+ countries. Karen joined ECOVACS as Country Marketing and Operations Manager in November 2018, promoted to Head of Australia and New Zealand in 2019. Originally from the UK, Karen is an industry executive with more than 20 years experience across business development, sales, account management and country management. Roles and Companies include: - Sony Ericsson - National Account Manager - Jabra Mobile - Regional Sales Manager, and then Senior Director of Sales - B&O Play (Bang & Olufsen) - Country Manager, ANZ Karen’s story is one of hard work, smart leadership, outstanding consumer relations and results. Under Karen’s regional leadership, the Australia/NZ market has been a huge success for ECOVACS ROBOTICS. Enjoy.

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    42 mins
  • CONVERSATION BYTES - EP 006 - GRANT PETTY
    Nov 23 2021

    Meet Grant Petty.

    Grant is founder and CEO of Blackmagic Design, a global Digital Cinema company based in Melbourne.

    In this interview - held over until we started to emerge from the pandemic - Grant talks about his humble housing commission beginnings to working with the best in Hollywood. 

    For 20 years Blackmagic Design has been on a mission to empower creatives of all backgrounds with access to broadcast and digital cinema products that previously would have been too expensive.

    In this episode, Grant covers the difficulties of the manufacturing process and what inspires him to keep producing equipment and software for the TV and Movie industry.

    Best of all, Grant is a top bloke and one of Australia’s most impressive business leaders.

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    36 mins
  • CONVERSATION BYTES - EP 005 - CHRIS LAU
    May 12 2021

    Meet Chris Lau.

    Chris is the Managing Director of LASER Corporation - an Australian IT and consumer electronics company that sells direct to the public and retailers.

    Another great story of business survival during COVID.

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    50 mins
  • CONVERSATION BYTES - EP 004 - STEPHANIE OGDEN
    Aug 16 2020

    Meet Stephanie Ogden.

    The Managing Director of Belkin Australia and NZ. Stephanie also talks openly about leadership and the positive influence of legendary founder Chet Pipkin. 

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    38 mins
  • CONVERSATION BYTES - EP 003 - MICHAEL TRAN
    Jul 19 2020

    Meet Michael Tran. The Managing Director of OPPO Australia.  Michael's also Director of Global Marketing and Brand Strategy at OPPO.

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    34 mins
  • CONVERSATION BYTES - EP 002 - PETER ADDERTON
    Jun 2 2020

    Meet Peter Adderton.

    The Australian founder of Boost Mobile talks with Conversation Bytes about taking a leading role in the ultra competitive market of MVNOs (Mobile Virtual Network Operators).

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    31 mins
  • CONVERSATION BYTES - EP 001 - SAM SKONTOS
    Mar 7 2020

    Meet Sam Skontos. Regional boss of Alcatel and TCL. He's my first guest on Conversation Bytes and he's a great one. Sam is famous for calling it as he sees it and that's why he's on the show.

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    36 mins
  • Conversation Bytes - Ep 000 - Teaser
    Mar 1 2020

    Coming soon.... 

    Conversation Bytes goes LIVE from 0900 AEDT on March 8th 2020.

    In each episode Djuro Sen speaks with a leader of technology business in Australia or overseas.

    It's about tech, leadership and straight talk.

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    1 min